Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is at the White House and expects to be fired Monday.
He has met with chief of workers John Kelly.
Rosenstein's departure would spark immediate questions concerning the long-term job security of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Noel Francisco, the solicitor general, would tackle oversight of Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The expectation that Rosenstein will leave the administration came once The New York Times reported he secretly discussed recording President Donald Trump and invoking the 25th Amendment to get rid of the President from office.
But GOP allies of Trump urged him to carry off on a purge of Justice Department officers until when the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
People acquainted with the conversations said within the hours after the Times report, Trump questioned whether to fireplace him immediately. Rosenstein denied the Times report as "inaccurate and factually incorrect."
"I never pursued or authorized recording the President and any suggestion that I even have ever advocated for the removal of the President is totally false," Rosenstein said in a later denial.
Trump appointed Rosenstein as deputy attorney general however had expressed extreme frustration with him for months, partly over his call to hire Mueller last year. Trump has repeatedly branded the investigation a "witch hunt" and complained that Rosenstein is "conflicted" as a result of he could be a witness in the investigation when writing a letter advocating the firing of former FBI Director James Comey over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
Rosenstein conjointly signed off on Mueller sending a tax and fraud case against Michael Cohen to the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, a move that ultimately led to an FBI raid on the offices and houses of the President's former lawyer, who is now speaking with prosecutors.
A career official
Rosenstein, born in Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and later Harvard Law School before starting a twenty seven-year run at the Justice Department.
After rising through the ranks, Rosenstein was unanimously confirmed as United States attorney for the District of Maryland in 2005 underneath then-President George W. Bush. Rosenstein was nominated by Bush to the federal appeals court in Richmond in 2007, but his nomination was blocked by Maryland's two Democratic senators.
He became the sole Bush-appointed US attorney to serve throughout all of President Barack Obama's eight-year tenure.
His time under Bush, Obama and then Trump created him the longest-serving US attorney in the state's history when he was confirmed to his current role beneath Sessions.
Rosenstein was confirmed! to the deputy attorney general post by an overwhelmingly bipartisan Senate vote of ninety four-six last year.
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